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Royal Delta Upset in GII Fleur de Lis H. P5 SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here BYRAMA BEST IN VANITY FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI STEPHEN FOSTER H. Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners= Byrama (GB) (Byron {GB}), sent off at what turned out to be generous odds of 6-1, came from just off the pace to annex Saturday=s GI Vanity H. at Hollywood Park. Accompanied by Gary Stevens, who has been enjoying a dream return to the saddle, ‘LARNED’ EDUCATES FOSTER FOES including a win in last Janis Whitham=s Fort Larned (E Dubai), winner of last month=s GI Preakness fall=s GI Breeders= Cup Classic, appeared to have lost S. on Oxbow Byrama (GB) some of his luster (Awesome Again), Benoit Photo following a pair of Byrama was collecting her first Grade I-level badge for uninspiring efforts earlier trainer Simon Callaghan. cont. p5 this term. Sent off the 3-1 second choice behind HEAD OF AFFAIRS Take Charge Indy France=s famed Head family and Chantilly=s G1 Prix de (A.P. Indy), who was Diane Longines go back a long way, and their fresh off a runaway, six- constellations meet once again today with the unbeaten length victory in the Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) bidding to write another Churchill Downs/Reed Palmer Photo May 3 GIII Alysheba S., chapter. In 1971, Alec Head=s Pistol Packer got the ball Fort Larned earned a >Win rolling, and her success was followed in 1978 by Reine and You=re In= berth to this year=s Classic when rolling de Saba (Fr). It took only three years for Criquette to to a powerful, front-running victory in last night=s enjoy the taste of glory with Harbour (Fr) (Arctic Tern) GI Stephen Foster H. at Churchill Downs. Cont. p3 and even though she had to wait until 2000 to add another edition to her palmares in Egyptband (Dixieland STEPHEN FOSTER H. PRESENTED BY ABU DHABI-GI, Band), her touch with talented fillies has remained a $536,300, CDX, 6-15, 3yo/up, 1 1/8m, 1:47 2/5, ft. reliable constant. Cont. p4 1--FORT LARNED, 121, h, 5, by E Dubai 1st Dam: Arlucea, by Broad Brush 2nd Dam: Bayakoa (Arg), by Consultant's Bid 3rd Dam: Arlucea (Arg), by Good Manners O/B-Janis R Whitham (KY); T-Ian R Wilkes; J-Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. $329,181. Lifetime Record: 22-9-2-1, $4,031,417. *1/2 to Izarra (Distorted Humor), MGISP, $114,800; and Moonport (Cape Canaveral), SP, $155,236. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2--Golden Ticket, 117, c, 4, Speightstown--Business Plan, by Deputy Minister. ($100,000 2yo >11 KEEAPR). O-Magic City Thoroughbred Partners; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-K G McPeek. $106,188. Another Ingordo Bloodstock 2YO Auction Purchase Another nbs sales graduate 3--Ron the Greek, 120, h, 6, Full Mandate--Flambe', by Fortunate Prospect. O-Brous Stable, Wachtel Stable, Jack T Hammer & Gary Barber; B-Jack T Hammer (FL); T-William I Mott. $53,094. Margins: 6 1/4, 4, 4 3/4. Odds: 3.30, 11.80, 3.10. 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Andrew, Adv Assistant/Distribution Amanda Crelin, Advertising Assistant Amanda Foster, Advertising Assistant Funny Proposition Upsetting Royal Delta in GII Fleur de Lis Customer Service [email protected] Vicki Forbes, Director of Customer Service Information Technology Robert Williams, Director of IT [email protected] Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming EST Race Click for TV [email protected] 9:45a Prix de Diane-Longines-G1, CHY 10:55a Union-Renne-G2, COL Business Development 11:05a Prix du Lys-Longine-G3, CHY Gary King, Director of Business Development 11:20a Noblesse S.-G3, CRK (brisnet.com PPs) [email protected] 12:15p Prix Bertrand du Breuil-Longines-G3, CHY TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing 6:00p Pegasus S.-GIII, MTH (brisnet.com PPs)TVG [email protected] Sean Cronin Tom Frary P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 6/16/13 • PAGE 3 of 11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com He added, AWhen we turned for home, I pulled the GI Stephen Foster H. stick through and he switched leads like the Fort Larned of old.@ Eighth in this test last season, Fort Larned regrouped to win last June=s GIII Cornhusker H. at Prairie Meadows before annexing the GI Whitney Cont. from p1 Invitational H. Aug. 4. AI took the blame [running Exiting the stalls like a shot, Fort Larned, a grandson eighth in 2012], because I didn=t do a good job with of Whitham=s champion racemare Bayakoa (Arg), this horse for the Stephen Foster last time. I had too rushed up to take the early lead and kept 9-5 choice pretty of a horse. I had a show horse, not a racehorse Take Charge Indy safe through opening splits of :23.69 last year. I knew I was coming in ready this year. The and :46 4/5. Loping along down Stephen Foster was one we the backstretch as Take Charge wanted to win.@ Third when Indy appeared to be working just favored in the GI Jockey Club to keep up, the handsome bay Gold Cup at Belmont Sept. 29,the fired all boosters turning for Ian Wilkes trainee returned to land home, kicked clear in the lane the Breeders= Cup Classic at and was 6 1/4-lengths clear of healthy 9-1 odds at Santa Anita Golden Ticket (Speightstown) at Nov. 3. Well supported in his the wire. Ron the Greek (Full much hyped return in the Mar. 9 Mandate) closed late for third, GII Gulfstream Park H., he fell to while the favorite finished sixth his face exiting the stalls and led and last. The final time of the field through a merry chase-- 1:47.45 was 17/100ths of a albeit riderless--before finally second off the track record set being corralled. Given another by Victory Gallop in 1999. AWe chance by bettors at the windows were going down the backside Fort Larned for his latest in the Apr. 13 GII and were cooking right along and Reed Palmer/Churchill Downs Oaklawn H., the 5-year-old failed the poles were going by pretty to mount any significant challenge fast, but he was always doing it well within himself so I and had to settle for fifth, beaten 10 lengths by wasn=t really worried about it,@ said winning rider Brian Cybersecret (Broken Vow). "He ran unbelievable," said Hernandez. winning trainer Ian Wilkes. "It was gratifying to get the horse back and to prove that he's as good as I thought he was and show he wasn't a one-year wonder." As We won and we’re in! for what's next for Fort Larned, Wilkes added, We'll run him in the Whitney and try to have him defend his Fort Larned =s connections earn: crown." As for the Classic, he said, "It's always been *Automatic berth into the BC the end of the year goal to get back to the Breeders' Classic Cup. We'll go the Whitney and then take it one race at *$50,000 in pre-entry fees a time." Click for the brisnet.com chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the *$50,000 in entry fees free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO. *$10,000 or $40,000 travel award for ALL Championship starters (based outside CA) Purple indicates Breeders= Cup Win & You=re In Race; +$10,000 nominator award to Janis R. Whitham BC pre-entry and entry fees paid and travel to the BC Click here for the complete W&YI race schedule. will be subsidized by Breeders= Cup Ltd. for BC- nominated horses. Click here for details. P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 6/16/13 • PAGE 4 of 11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com G1 Prix Diane cont. from p1 It is likely that similar tactics could be employed in Haras du Quesnay=s Treve followed a smooth winning what could turn out to be a tactical affair. Successful debut at Longchamp in September with an assured and six times in this race, Alain de Royer-Dupre saddles a authoritative follow-up here May 15, and there should dark horse this time in Peter Makin=s expensive be more to come, as those runs came at a mile trip that purchase Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}). She has plenty should be a minimum on pedigree. Whether she can to find following a fall on her sole sophomore start in a upset the likes of Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al conditions event over this trip at Saint-Cloud May 24.